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  • 2011
    Book chapter

    Bone pin fragment

    Many years ago ‘henge monuments' were identified as a distinctive kind of prehistoric monument but their interpretation still poses problems. When were they first built and how long did they remain important? How were they used and did their roles change during the course of their history? Recent work has...
    Sheridan, J A
  • 2011
    Book chapter

    Burnt stone pendant

    Many years ago ‘henge monuments' were identified as a distinctive kind of prehistoric monument but their interpretation still poses problems. When were they first built and how long did they remain important? How were they used and did their roles change during the course of their history? Recent work has...
    Sheridan, J A
  • 2011
    Book chapter

    Pottery

    Many years ago ‘henge monuments' were identified as a distinctive kind of prehistoric monument but their interpretation still poses problems. When were they first built and how long did they remain important? How were they used and did their roles change during the course of their history? Recent work has...
    Sheridan, J A
  • 2011
    Book chapter

    Old friends, new friends, a long-lost friend and false friends: tales from Project JADE

    Our understanding of the production, distribution and use of Neolithic axeheads, adzeheads and chisels made of jadeitite and other rare Alpine rockshas been transformed by a major international French-led research project, Project JADE. This has systematically recorded and mapped all such objects longer than 135 mm across Europe - extending...
    Sheridan, J A
  • 2011
    Book chapter

    Stone battle axehead

    Many years ago ‘henge monuments' were identified as a distinctive kind of prehistoric monument but their interpretation still poses problems. When were they first built and how long did they remain important? How were they used and did their roles change during the course of their history? Recent work has...
    Sheridan, J A
  • 2011
    Book chapter

    Eclogite or jadeitite: The two colours involved in the transfer of alpine axeheads in western Europe

    During the 5th and 4th millennia BC, the Neolithic extraction of stone around Mont Viso and in the Mont Beigua massif in the north Italian Alps resulted in the production of large polished axeheads in ecologite, omphacitite, jadeitite and amphibolite - raw materials which were not only rare but which...
    Pétrequin, P ;   Sheridan, J A ;   Cassen, S ;   Errera, M ;   Gauthier, E …
  • 2007
    Book chapter

    The plenary session

    The Scottish Wetland Archaeology Project (SWAP) was initiated in 1998 in response to John Coles’ energetic encouragement of the Scottish delegates to the Dublin WARP Conference. Over the following years, SWAP members and others have worked on wetland materials and projects, leading to the hosting of the 11th International WARP...
    Barber, J ;   Clarke, C ;   Cressey, M ;   Crone, A ;   Hale, A …
  • 2007
    Book chapter

    Dating the Scottish bronze age: "There is clearly much that the material can still tell us"

    Results from a current National Museums of Scotland (NMS) radiocarbon dating initiative, the Dating Cremated Bones Project, are presented. The project takes advantage of a recent development in radiocarbon dating that enables reliable dates to be obtained from cremated bone. The results indicate that Collared Urns were in use in...
    Sheridan, J A

    dating, SCOTLAND, Bronze Age, and collared urns

  • 2008
    Book chapter

    Battle axeheads; the types and uses of cinerary urns; Early Neolithic carinated bowl pottery

    The upgrading of part of the A1 road in south-east Scotland prompted the excavation of eleven archaeological sites. These spanned a period of 5,000 years from the early fourth millenium BC to the early fifth century AD. This volume draws together the results of the excavations and presents the story...
    Sheridan, J A
  • 2010
    Book chapter

    The Neolithisation of Britain and Ireland: the big picture

    This contribution offers a model for the Neolithization of Britain and Ireland featuring multiple strands of immigration, from different parts of France to different parts of these islands - at differing scales and for differing reasons - over the course of several centuries from the third quarter of the 5th...
    Sheridan, J A